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Reggio, and Milan, where he passed the 
winter in the society of Bart, Capra, and 
of Ottaviano Ferrari, to whom he was 
united by the ties of friendship. Though 
his health was impaired he could not re- 
nounce his former studies, and the time 
which was not passed with his two friends, 
was devoted to his Commentary on the 
Orations of Cicero. In May 1572, he re- 
turned to Venice, which he soon quitted 
for Rome, fur the purpose of bringing 
home his daughter, but where he was in- 
duced again to stay by the liberality of 
Gregory XIU. Surrounded by his books, 
and finding in the midst of a populous 
city all the advantages of solitude, he 
there continued his commentary, and 
suffered no abatement of his studies, but 
that which his constant state of ill health 
required. Inthree months he completed 
his commentaries on six orations; those 
for Ligarius and Dejotarus afterwards en- 
gaged his attention. The commentary 
‘upon the oration for Archias, was printed 
separately at Rome, apud Josephum de 
Angelis, 1572, with a preface by Paulus 
Manutius inscribed to G. Boncompagno. 
Iu February 1575, his daughter married 
a young man ofegood family, who had 
gained some reputation in the profession 
of the law. Paulus Manutius had now 
apparently only to enjoy the repose which 
he had so long desired. Kindly received 
and greatly esteemed in the first city in 
the world, then the centre and the seat 
of learning, having only his favourite stu- 
dies and his friends tu engage his thoughts, 
residing with his son-in-law and_ his 
daughter, whom he tenderly loved, no- 
thing was wanting to complete his feli- 
city but ‘the certainty of a continuance 
for some years of this kind of life, so suit- 
able to his inclinations. This happiness 
was denied ; from the month of Septem- 
ber 1573, the year of his daughter’s mar- 
riage, his Health evidently declined. 
Three months after he thought himself 
better; but great weakness remained, and 
a violent head-ache, which at times de- 
prived him of the use of speech. Diffe- 
rent remedies were applied, but his ill- 
ness increased so rapidly, that he died 
April 6, 1574. Ile was interred without 
any inscription in the church of the-Do- 
winicans. He had lived sixty-one years, 
nine months, and twenty-one days. He 
expired in the arms of his son, who on 
the first intimation of his father’s alarm- 
ing state, had quitted Venice with the 
hope of returning with him to that 
eity, where he would be better enabled to 
pay hiua the necessary attentions; but he 
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only arrived in time to receive his last 
breath. , ; 
Such were the life and death of Paulus 
Manutius, the honour of his family and 
of his art; universally regretted, because 
he wags universally esteemed, He was 
in great favour with the rich and power- 
ful, but derived very little benefit from 
their patronage, of which, however, du- 
ring his whole life, he received continual 
assurances, 
His literary productions are nume- 
rous, and in particular remarkable for, 
their pure and elegant dictios#, formed 
upon the style of Cicero, which he made 
his constant study; as well as for their 
erudition and justness of criticism, ‘ ar- 
gutum judicis acumen.” by which he is 
eminently distinguished from the multi- 
tude of editors and commentators. 
Among the principal are, the collection 
of his Latin Letters and Prefaces; which 
rank among the very best modern writings 
in that language; his Italian Letters; 
Commenkaries on Cicero’s Epistles, Rhe- 
torical, and Philosophical works, and on 
his Ovations; Notes on Virgil; four treas 
tises of Roman Antiquities, viz. De Legi- 
bus, De Senatu, De Comitiis, and De 
Civitate Romana, Healsotranslated the 
Philippics of Demosthenes, and wrote 
other treatises which accompanied sone 
of his editions. 
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THE LIFE OF 
ALDUS THE YOUNGER, 
THE SON OF PAULUS. 
LDUS the eldest son of Paulus Ma- 
nutius was born February 18, 
1547; his father, who earnestly desired 
to make him a skilful and learned printer, 
paid the greatest attention to his educa- 
tion. The genius of the younger Aldus 
unfolded itself at a very early period, 
and promised that he would even excel 
his father and grand-father. At the age 
of eleven years, he published a work, 
probably not entirely his own, called, 
“ Eleganze della lingua Toscana e Lati- 
na.” This work met with yery great suc- 
cess ; it wastwice printed in 1558, again 
in the following year, and has appeared 
several times since, with additions and 
corrections. He continued, his labours 
«with a perseverance truly astonishing. 
In 1561, at the age of fourteen, bis “ Or- 
thographia Ratio,” was published. This 
valuable work furnished ah excellent 
system of Latin Orthography, derived 
from monuments, inscriptions, medals 
and manuscripts, Aldus being sent for to. 
Rome by his father in 1562, profitably 
employe 
